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Beau-Lilah for a girl

488 replies

w9828971 · 09/10/2025 14:09

Thoughts?

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WatchingTheDetective · 09/10/2025 17:02

If she has a sister, you could call her Doolally.

IthinkIsawahairbrushbackthere · 09/10/2025 17:01

It makes me think of "Beulah" a popular name for churches and a Biblical place name meaning "married".

mmmarmalade · 09/10/2025 16:59

YouHaveAnArse · 09/10/2025 15:07

'Pretentious' is not the word that sprung to mind with this name.

We're you thinking of Beau-colic were you - isn't that a beautiful name?

Holdonforsummer · 09/10/2025 16:58

please don’t.

bluevelvetears · 09/10/2025 16:56

Sounds like polyester lace - cheap, nasty and scratchy.

JudgeJ · 09/10/2025 16:53

w9828971 · 09/10/2025 14:09

Thoughts?

I immediately see Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh in Gone With The Wind!

mistlethrush · 09/10/2025 16:51

Why would you want to call your little girl a name that implies 'handsome' not beautiful? Belle would be the 'beautiful' option which might perhaps suggest you had a little bit more confidence in genetics...

BashfulClam · 09/10/2025 16:49

LadyRoughDiamond · 09/10/2025 16:45

I teach a lot of children with hyphenated names. By Y9 they’ve always ditched one half and are furious when anyone uses their full name. I’ve had some embarrassing moments with parents who still insist on the full Elsie-May or whatever, despite the fact that their child hates it. The same often goes for cumbersome double-barrelled surnames - by the end of school they’re just putting one on exercise books, despite what it says on the register.

Remember, names are for children, not for the parents.

The people I’ve met has always insisted on both names. One girl was ‘Sarah-Jane not Sarah not Jane, Sarah-Jane or SJ’ one guy in our team insisted on calling her Sarah.

InveterateWineDrinker · 09/10/2025 16:48

If you think she'll end up working in Minnie Mouse's Bow-tique (the shop in Minnie's Bow Toons) then it might work. I'm struggling to think of anywhere else where it would be regarded as normal or sensible, except perhaps an erotic dance venue.

ButSheSaid · 09/10/2025 16:47

The best names I've seen on here are
GARYBELLE (Garybeaugh)
and
J-Cub

What about those?

LancashireButterPie · 09/10/2025 16:47

Lilah Beau or Lilah Belle is slightly better.

BashfulClam · 09/10/2025 16:46

Please don’t saddle your poor baby with that. Sorry but it’s fucking awful!

user927464 · 09/10/2025 16:45

Horrendous

LadyRoughDiamond · 09/10/2025 16:45

I teach a lot of children with hyphenated names. By Y9 they’ve always ditched one half and are furious when anyone uses their full name. I’ve had some embarrassing moments with parents who still insist on the full Elsie-May or whatever, despite the fact that their child hates it. The same often goes for cumbersome double-barrelled surnames - by the end of school they’re just putting one on exercise books, despite what it says on the register.

Remember, names are for children, not for the parents.

tiresomee · 09/10/2025 16:43

No.

Nanny0gg · 09/10/2025 16:41

youmustbeshittingme · 09/10/2025 14:12

Awful. Mainly because it’s two names that don’t go together at all and I dislike hyphenated names.
Even if I liked Beau as a name, isn’t it more of a boys name?

I would have said so

Calliopespa · 09/10/2025 16:39

Namechangerage · 09/10/2025 16:34

No, sorry. Beau for a girl maybe. I know a girl nicknamed Bo and it’s cute. There aren’t many names that can be double-barrelled like that and the Lilah adds nothing. She will just be called Beau so why not just name her that and Lila as a middle name? I actually quite like Beau Isla.

That sounds like a whisky.

Stoufer · 09/10/2025 16:37

Sadly I would be tempted to use Beau-na-na as a nickname….

Yoyokitten · 09/10/2025 16:36

Chuffing hell OP !!, That's so awful, poor kid

BotterMon · 09/10/2025 16:35

Absolutely not. Awful made-up silly name and Beau is always masculine.

Namechangerage · 09/10/2025 16:34

No, sorry. Beau for a girl maybe. I know a girl nicknamed Bo and it’s cute. There aren’t many names that can be double-barrelled like that and the Lilah adds nothing. She will just be called Beau so why not just name her that and Lila as a middle name? I actually quite like Beau Isla.

NagathaCrispy · 09/10/2025 16:33

Just no! .... poor kid having to go through life lumbered with that.

Onmytod24 · 09/10/2025 16:31

Sorry, it’s not a name. It’s just a series of letters. Are you in an abusive relationship?.

PrincessHoneysuckle · 09/10/2025 16:29

No dont do it

UnctuousUnicorns · 09/10/2025 16:29

"it looks like the first half of Beautiful to an English eye"

It really doesn't. It looks like it's pronounced i.e. Beau, to rhyme with Blow.

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